Lol it’s probably magic from a gnome in a weird helmet

He’s not doing shit, someone is doing something and he’s capturing the merit

won’t lead

I would say we are already seeing / have already seen bad things happening because of this complacency. Buf of course worse things will happen if we don’t take measures.

Ok first of all it’s not a peer-reviewed paper, it’s a report. Words fucking matter.

Nice now i’ve read a post about an article about a paper by goldman-sachs, see you later if i find the original paper, otherwise there’s nothing really to discuss.

This is a weird claim, I’m curious to know what was the original message that you replied to

Not enough people or not leftist enough?

This isn’t pushing any boundaries, though. This is off the shelf technology. Anybody can do something big by throwing a shit ton of money at it. It would be pushing boundaries of tech or art if it was for instance super power efficient, or mind bending in any way. This is a fucking sphere, it’s the simplest shape and a rip off of the pyramids but less original and not even comparable in terms of durability.

Well this is not good math at all. If you create a project and offset all its power requirements, you haven’t added anything to the grid. The alternative is to not do stuff, which is not going to happen anytime soon*, so it’s a net good thing and needs to be incentivized, not disparaged.

*Well it will happen after the water wars and plagues wipe us out, and the sphere will stop drawing any energy at that point.

In the future there will be myths that we once had standards such as html but after we tried to build this sphere, god cursed us to use only incompatible proprietary protocols

Because twitter is now full on right wing

This is the problem of original intentionality. There are studies on it, for instance they found that with an mri they can detect when you have come to a decision before your conscious mind realizes you have. Some processes in our brain are outside of our control, because the brain is not just the neocortex but also includes tens of other structures that evolved separately with specific hard-coded purposes, but that doesn’t mean they are not working as a team. I think in any case you are still reaponsible for the decisions you take.

Here’s my take: the answer is emergent phenomena. We live in a very complex system and in complex systems there are interactions that can only be predicted using systems of equal or higher complexity. So even in case everything is predetermined, it would still be unpredictable and therefore your decisions are basically still up to you and the complex interactions in your brain.

I didn’t even know x still existed

You don’t know what you’re talking about

It’s painted like that because it is. It’s the biggest bastion of freedom.

I can’t tell if you are joking. But just in case, my installation worked flawlessly for years.

People that want to stay free must learn to vote for the most viable candidate, whether they like them or not. Republicans know the left actually value proper behaviour and consistency from their candidates, so the left is vulnerable to this kind of attack. The republicans don’t care what you say about their candidate, they just want to win. But especially they want you to lose.

Is anybody NOT concerned?

Woah thank you so much for taking the time. I really struggle to understand this people. This does make sense.